Mahabharata — Ashvamedhika Parva, Shloka 49
Mind as Charioteer; Kṣetrajña, Tapas, and Dhyāna-Yoga
Adhyātma-Upadeśa
रूक्ष: शीतस्तथैवोष्ण: स्निग्धो विशद एव च
rūkṣaḥ śītastathaivoṣṇaḥ snigdho viśada eva ca
वायु-देव ने कहा— स्पर्श से ग्रहण किए जाने वाले गुण रूक्ष, शीत, उष्ण, स्निग्ध और विशद कहे गए हैं। इस प्रकार तत्त्वदर्शी, धर्मज्ञ, सिद्ध ब्राह्मणों ने विधिपूर्वक वायु के स्पर्श-गुणों का विस्तृत निरूपण किया है।
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames sensory experience (especially touch) as analyzable into distinct qualities and presents this analysis as a disciplined, authoritative teaching transmitted by realized and dharma-knowing sages—linking correct knowledge of nature with ethical and scriptural order.
Vāyu-deva is speaking in a didactic context, enumerating and characterizing the tactile qualities associated with the wind principle, while affirming that such classification has been properly taught by accomplished Brahmin sages.